Bowdoin College 
Bulletin 



Number 93 



July, 1919 



Memorial Address 

June 22, 1919 




Brunswick, Maine 



Entered as second-class matter, June 28, 1907, at Brunswick, Maine 
under Act of Congress of July 16, 1894 



Published monthly by the College 



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FOR THOSE BOWDOIN MEN 

WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES 

IN THE WAR 

BY PRESIDENT SILLS 



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^ Prelude — "Grave and Adagio" (Second organ Sonata) 

^ Mendelssohn 

"America" — Hymn 381 

Responsive Reading and Gloria Patri 

Hymn 304 — "The Son of God goes forth to war" 

Scripture Lesson 

Reading of names 

Address — President Sills 

Solo — "My hope is in the Everlasting" Stainer 

My hope is in the Everlasting, that He will save you; and 
joy is come unto me from the Holy One, because of the mercy 
which shall soon come unto you from the Everlasting, our 
Saviour. 

I sent you out with mourning and weeping — hut God will 
give you to me again with joy and gladness forever. 

Prayer and Benediction 

"Star Spangled Banner" 

Postlude— Marche Solennelle Callaerts 



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Class of 1897 

Eobert Lord Hull. Major, M.R.C. d. 4 
Jan., 1919, San Francisco, Cal. 

Class of 1910 

Warren Eastman Robinson. 1st Lieut., 
102d Machine Gun Battalion, Killed in 
action, 6 Nov., 1918, in France. 

Class of 1910, Non-Graduate 

Harold Sumner Small. Sergt., 1st Maine 
H.F.A. d. 3 Dec, 1917, Camp Greene, N. C. 

Class of 1912 
Roland Hiram Waitt. 20th F.A. Killed 
in action, 7 Sept., 1918, in France. 

Class of 1913 

Charles Roy Bull. d. Camp Lee, Va. 

Class of 1913, Non-Graduate 

Frederick Trevenen Edwards. 1st Lieut., 
F.A. Killed in action, 6 Oct., 1918, in 
France. 

Class of 1914 

Omar Perlie Badger. M.R.C. d. 25 Sept., 
1918, Boston, Mass. 

Leonard Henry Gibson, Jr. Corp., Depot 
Brigade, d. 27 Sept., 1918, Camp Devens, 
Mass. 

Class of 1914, Non-Graduates 

Edward Alfred Trottier. U.S.N.R.F. d. 
23 Sept., 1918, Brookline, Mass. 



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Douglas Urquhart. Sergt., 104th Inf. 
d. July, 1918, of wounds, in France. 

Class of 1915, Non-Graduates 

Charles William Wallace Field. 2d Lieut., 
103d Inf. Killed in action, July, 1918, in 
France. 

Stuart Pingree Morrill. 26th Co., C.A.C. 
d. 27 Jan., 1918, Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga. 

Class of 1917 

Benjamin Pliny Bradford. 1st Lieut., 
Aviation Corps. Killed in aeroplane ac- 
cident, 6 Aug., 1918, Tours, France. 

Forbes Rickard, Jr. 2d Lieut., 59th Inf. 
Killed in action, 20 July, 1918, in France. 

Class of 1917, Non-Graduates 

Frank Durham Hazeltine. 2d Lieut., 
101st Inf. Killed in action, 12 Sept., 1918, 
in France. 

Judson Gordon Martell. Capt., 60th Inf. 
Killed in action, 14 Oct., 1918, in France. 

Class of 1918 

Wilfrid Olivier Bernard. M.R.C. d. 17 
Dec, 1918, Brunswick, Me. 

Class of 1918, Non-Graduates 

'Carroll Edward Fuller. Pvt. d. 26 Sept., 
1918, Camp Devens, Mass. 

Joseph Ralph Sandford. 1st Lieut., 
Royal Flying Corps. Killed in action, May, 
1918, in France. 

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Class of 1919, Non-Graduates 

Albert Davis Holbrook. 2d Lieut., 23rfl 
Inf. d. 19 June, 1918, in German Field 
Hospital. 

William Frye Martin. M.C. Killed in 
action, 9 Oct., 1918, in France. 

Francis Yvonnet Van Schoonhoven, Jr. 
1st Lieut., 101st Inf. Killed in action in 
France. 

Class of 1920 

Lawrence Hill Gate. Ensign, Aviation 
Corps, d. 9 Oct., 1918, Pensacola, Fla. 

Michael Joseph Delehanty. Aviation 
Corps. Killed in aeroplane accident, 25 
March, 1918, Pensacola, Fla. 

William Blake Taft. Signal Corps, 
d. 31 May, 1919, Washington, D. C. 

Class of 1922 

Samuel Garnons Bush. S.A.T.C. d. 22 
Dec, 1918, Brunswick, Me. 

Medical Class of 1913 

Wyvern Almon Coombs. 1st Lieut., 
M.R.C. Killed in accident, 23 Apr., 1918, 
Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. 

Honorary Graduate 

Sherman Avery White. Lieut. Col., 
U.S.A. Killed in accident, 80 Nov., 1918, 
in France. 



Class of 1889 
George Taylor Files. Y.M.C.A. d. 23 
Apr., 1919, Boston, Mass. 



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By President Sills 

The reading of these familiar names in 
this place and at this time is far more elo- 
quent than any formal memorial address. 
Yet since this service would be strangely in- 
complete and cold were no words of gratitude 
uttered, I ask you to think with me for a 
few minutes what discipline of self, what 
sacrifice, what love of country we here honor. 
Every one of these men whether in glorious 
combat on the field or in the dread routine 
of duty in camp died with his face to the foe, 
expressing in that final act the noblest 
tradition of the College. "They would be 
free or die," not only because they were 
American citizens, but because they had 
learned here their kinship with the heroes 
of the past and their obligation to keep the 
heritage that had been so richly won for 
them. They poured out "the red, sweet wine 
of youth" without a murmur or regret; be- 
cause, as one of them wrote, they knew they 
were the chosen representatives of their 
countless brothers who would as freely have 
given their lives, had God so willed. Could 



their brave young spirits, who may be even 
now hovering near their beloved college 
home, be given utterance, we may be sure 
they would say : "We have only done what 
many others would have done; and if you 
honor us, do not forget them." 

The war, changing our ideas about so 
many things, has removed almost entirely 
our fear of death. When we see the brave 
and the young leave us thus gloriously, tho 
sting of death is gone; the victory of the 
grave is a defeat. To hold life so lightly that 
we can toss it away in a splendid cause with 
all the zest of a lover, and at the same time 
to value, as youth does, the joy of living so 
that the sacrifice is real — this is the better 
part. 

As always happens when men do brave, 
unselfish deeds, they are now a part of his- 
tory. They are brothers to those golden lads 
who clothed themselves with the dust of 
death at Thermopylae ; to the sailor men who 
gleefully shattered the Spanish Armada; to 
the embattled farmers of Concord; to those 
who at Gettysburg gave their lives that the 
nation might live. Vimy Ridge — for some 
of our boys fought there, — Chateau Thierry, 
the Argonne, shall thrill men as did the 
great battles of old; their names shall be 



"Familiar in our mouths as household words;" 

and when the stories are retold, here at 
Bowdoin no Commencement shall go by 

"From this day to the ending of the world 

But they in it shall be remembered 

Those few, those happy few, that band of brothers." 

The war has proved once more what the 
ancients knew and what Christ taught, that 
"greater love hath no man than this, that a 
man lay down his life for his friends." 

In this, the supreme test, the college man 
is no more worthy of praise than are his 
brothers in other walks of life ; but in other 
respects the contribution of the college man 
to the war was somewhat different. Deep 
down in his heart he felt somehow or other 
that his college training had made his soul, 
as old Boethius in prison wrote, superior to 
fortune. And so it made really no difference 
to him whether he should come marching 
home some bright, sunny day, or whether 
he should join the ranks of the gallant un- 
returning. The storm might sink his craft 
or bring it to a quiet haven; but he would 
hold the rudder true. In his own citadel of 
self he would endure cheerfully whatever 
fate meted out to him. And so in all the ad- 
versity of war, in sickness and in wounds, 
in prison camp and in death itself, these 



merry care-free lads, these sober, earnest 
men kept their own souls. 

There is then no sadness in this memorial 
service ; we mourn our dead but with solemn 
pride : 

"Nothing is here for tears; nothing to wail 

Or knock the breast; no weakness, no contempt, 

Dispraise or blame; nothing but well and fair 
And what may quiet us in a death so noble." 

For we celebrate a triumph here — the 
triumph of freedom over might, and of the 
freedom-loving spirit over death. 

As they represented us and their mates 
in death, so it is our part to represent them 
in life. No such happy fate as theirs awaits 
us. In the freshness and vigor of life they 
gave themselves completely to their country ; 
all that might have been done amiss lies 
covered in a glorious grave; we think only 
of the beauty of the sacrifice. Something of 
their immortal freshness will always linger 
about these halls to show future generations 
yet untold what youth has done, that youth 
may do. If we represent them aright in the 
new world that is to be ; if we reproduce and 
hand on their simplicity, their unaffected 
devotion to duty, their genuineness, this col- 
lege will be a happier place, and this country 
even nobler than it now is. They played 



their parts well, however we may play ours ; 
their responsibility ended when they gave 
their all — no less. But it is not idle to think 
that they will rest more quietly if the things 
for which they fought triumph. 



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